TheDirtyNacho:EU has abolished internal border checkpoints for the most part, except in emergency or national security issues.

It's the Schengen Agreement, and it doesn't quite line up with the EU. The United Kingdom and Ireland opted out. Cyprus, Romania, and Bulgaria are still working on being able to follow the rules. And finally, Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, and Liechtenstein are all official members. The other microstates aren't official members, but they were integrated with their neighbor countries beforehand, and I'm not going to get into the status of all the territories and whatnot.

Gyrfalcon:12349876: ronaprhys: I do a longer road trip than that every year. Planning it again this year, with a spiffy side trip that includes hiking up Pike's Peak.

Should be good times.

I was expecting more too seeing "across Europe" in the URL. Assuming he wasn't taking crazy detours, Google Maps has that trip at about 8hrs 15min

Really? Wow, Europe is SMALL.

Well, western Europe is fairly small, the continent is fairly large (EU is 4.3M km^2 vs 9.6M for the US and Europe at 10.1M). When I take the wife to Europe we'll land in German, drive through Austria, Slovenia, and across most of Italy and it'll be less driving than we did for Thanksgiving this year.